The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Matthew Giles Architects reworks suburban house with timber-clad extensions
The three-storey, semi-detached house has been extended out at ground-floor level to face a rear garden studio that helps unify the site
Small project & extension
House extensions and refurbishments, plus other small-scale or budget projects undertaken by architects. Find out more about AJ Small Projects here
Dempsey + Gannon refurbishes and extends West Yorkshire home on £100k
Emerging Manchester-based practice Dempsey + Gannon has futureproofed a 1930s detached home in West Yorkshire for just over £100,000
MATA completes ‘back to brick’ refurb and extension of terraced house
The mid-terrace, Victorian house in Queen’s Park, west London, is designed for a young family who like to cook and entertain and often need to work from home
Name Architects completes understated retrofit of Hackney terraced house
The refurbishment of a two-storey Victorian house in London Fields, including a kitchen extension, employs a warm, simple palette of materials
Magri Williams completes full-width rear extension for Hackney house
The relationship with natural light was pivotal in the client’s brief for transforming this home on Foulden Road in Hackney
SPASE restores and extends listed Dorset building as arts venue
Sherborne House, a Grade I-listed building with Georgian, Tudor and Medieval elements, has been restored and extended with a glulam-structured pavilion and event space
Unknown Works completes minimalist home for its director in Kentish Town
A dark, poorly laid-out home has been transformed into a bright minimalist space with a new interior courtyard
Grafted ‘reinvigorates’ Victorian terrace house in Norwich
The refurbishment of this five-bedroomed detached house includes an extension clad in handmade, precast panels fabricated by new practice Grafted
Scullion Architects completes timber extension to south Dublin home
Irish practice Scullion Architects has completed a 130m2 timber and blockwork extension to a Victorian terraced house in Ranelagh, south Dublin, inspired by an old apple tree in the garden
Knox Bhavan retrofits early Victorian villa in Camberwell as low-energy home
The renovation and extension preserves the house’s period elegance while creating a warm low-energy home for the clients to ‘age in place’